#prisons

Crime doesn’t pay, unless you’re a wealthy crook in Ukraine, were your bigger bank account could nab a nice prison cell for a while. The country’s Justice Ministry is now offering non-refundable gift certificates for “luxury cells.” According to the BBC, Justice Minister Denys Malyuska called the

Bastøy Prison, Horten, Norway source Penal De Ciudad Barrios, Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, El Salvador source Aranjuez Prison, Aranjuez, Spain source Haiti’s Civil Prison, Arcahaie, Haiti source The Maula Prison, Lilongwe, Malawi source ADX Florence, Colorado, United States source

Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, In the late 17th century, we British decided that, as a humanitarian effort and public service, we’d collect up all the people from the towns and countryside who were bonkers and confine them in institutions, so that society could be protected from

The Justice Department announced that it will stop contracting private prisons, after damaging reports surfaced which revealed the facilities are both less safe and generally more ineffective at providing correctional services compared to their government-run counterparts. Deputy Attorney General

A guard at Australia’s most notorious maximum security prison went on a radio show recently to dish about what really goes on behind bars. Is it knife fights? Is it gang brawls? Is it lots and lots and lots of consensual sex? It’s the last one. William, a prison guard who worked at the Sydney